A major study shows how people in Bronze Age Europe adapted to change through shifting ancestry, burial rites and daily life practices.

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

The Late Bronze Age “Urnfield” world is famous for cremation - yet that very practice usually destroys the biological clues archaeologists need. Now, an international team has used rare inhumation ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. A new ...

A 2,800-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a chilling pattern: women and children deliberately targeted, most unrelated to one another, and buried in a ritualized ceremony.

The DNA of elites from the Golden Horde reveals roots in Mongolia and direct links to the line of Genghis Khan.

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than linger. They actively shape how people survive in extreme environments. The ...

A new interdisciplinary study published in Nature Communications provides the first detailed insights, from a biomolecular and archaeological perspective, into the lives of people living in Central ...